Intensified person controls at American airports can be mind numbing. A French woman is threatened with prison, because she protested in special way.

Washington - The French woman, 56, had celebrated the wedding of her nephew in Indiana and was on the return trip to France, when she was examined by security personnel. According to witnesses the scanner beeped again and again, until the "initially cooperative" woman became impatient and angrily took off her sweater, her blouse and - despite violent resistance by the security guard - also her bra. Nothing was found despite the striptease, but the incident led to a 10 minute shutdown of the airport. When the responsible judge in Evansville informed her about the possible maximum penalty, the woman broke down. The judge invoked the new anti-terror law, that was passed after September 11, 2001 and that punishes "criminal offences" at airports with up to three years of prison.

''In Spanish, to demonstrate the use of `yo soy' he would say, `Yo soy an [expletive].' Or he would sneeze in class and say `bull [expletive]' so that everyone could hear it. I had to suspend him for that.''

I've got the fever too. For you, Amazon. You feel the spring in the air? I feel it in my step.

Even though the Open Letters website has been dormant for a while, the letters archived there are funny. This loving exchange with Amazon.com warms the cockles of my heart.
via [ This American LifePaul Tough's Bio ] by way of [ Wil Wheatonwho's gonna be on the radio ]

Transom.
This web site has the kinda cool and quirky types of stories that I love!

The Fifth Day of Channukah: The Day of Uncertainty written by Dlove.
Reminds me of my childhood creation, Hannukah Joe and his Flying Menorah. Big old Joe would sit up in the Shamas, the tallest candle holder, and the other candle holders would be combination rocket packs and gift holders.

Boston's web site, www.bandboston.com, talks about bringing in new sounds from today and not just making another Boston album that sounds like all the others. They also have a new female lead singer. Should be interesting.

Welcome to greg.org. For more than seven years, I was "working to support my art habit." I went to business school, did M&A, rode the Internet wave through three startups and tons of Global 500 consulting, and have been involved in art all along (mostly by collecting and hanging out with artists). But then in 2001, I decided to leave my suit job and make movies.

This "Six Pack" model of the "Dew the Dew Mountain Dew 12 oz. can Shotgun Style delivery system allows the user to "rapid fire" 12. oz unopened Mountain cans at incredible velocities!? This unit was used in the making of the many Mountain Dew commercials you see each day!

"We usually don't serve your kind," snarled a mealy-faced skinhead behind the bar. The Jewish fellow, adorned in a long leather coat, prayer shawl, gold Star of David and black fedora, ignored the comment and asked for a drink: "Manischewitz, straight up." As the bartender turned briefly away, the Jewish man grabbed the liquor bottle, smashed it across the skinhead's skull, and turned with a sneer to the roomful of customers.

I would like to know a name of a painting that hangs (or use too!) in the Sydney Opera House. I saw it when I took a tour of the Opera House in 1986. The painting was fairly large (12 ft x 12 ft) mostly blue (like the ocean) with splashes of color. Abstract (not literal) painting. If I recall correctly (I don't want to give you wrong information with my fuzzy memory) the painting was based on a poem. And the poem was about a man who partying on a boat in the harbor and fell overboard and the poem (and painting) reflects what he saw underwater - the blurry lights of the city, the underside of the boat, empty bottles of wine, glasses. It is a beautiful painting. Any information would be really helpful! Thank you!

I'm getting kinda hooked on Google Answers. People pay to get their questions answered, and the resulting answers are free for anyone to look at.

Thanks Edward for choosing Off On A Tangent as your your site du jour of the day! I love that title, even though you're featuring sites weekly now! That just makes it more special!

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank my wife for ignoring me while I spend all my time on the web looking for good sites to post here. Enjoy the site and come back often.

Off On A Tangent: Hot Girls, Cold Beer, Fresh Links is a Weblog that explores general interest topics and sites along with other things that give Creepy Steve a thrill. Those things include photography, popular culture, computers, and as the title proudly exclaims — Hot Girls and Cold Beer. In reality, the girls and women are hot in the context that they have had recent media attention although some are pretty darn foxy at times.

Creepy Steve doesn't turn up all of this by himself, a featured Site du Jour of the Day has been known to show up occasionally but that is part of the charm. For the most part, credit is given where it is due, that makes for a nice launching point. If you like what Creepy Steve has opted to reprint, you'll probably dig the original publication and the pointers to those sites are provided. The majority of what is at Off On A Tangent: Hot Girls, Cold Beer, Fresh Links has been turned up by Creepy Steve and that is nice.

One of the few sites I visit several times a week, Off On A Tangent: Hot Girls, Cold Beer, Fresh Links could become a favorite for you.

If you have some free time, there's a lot of good stuff in the archives too.

We get him, in the movie's coolest scene, tangling with a pack of bad guys on the floor of a bus garage soaked with fresh oil, so nobody can stand up for more than a second (until Frank gets a pair of those mechanic's cleats on his feet, that is). We get him sledding down a mountain highway on the severed cab door of a semi-truck.

Maybe I didn't see the exact same version of this movie as the Salon reviewer. Maybe I did. In the version I saw, Frank doesn't put mechanic's cleats on his feet, he rips off the bicycle pedals and wears them on his feet! I don't even think mechanic's wear cleats, aren't they for baseball and football players?

As for the guy who rides a severed car door down a highway, It's not Frank on the door, but one of the thousands of bad guys.

The movie did seems serious, but at times you just had to laugh at the slapstick fight scenes.

This is not one of my favorite Luc Besson movies. I loved The Professional, La femme Nikita and The 5th Element. This movie is not like any of those.

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Good Lord, Christi is psychotic. She must have left her medication at home. Now I know why I have so few female friends - I can't handle crying over stuipd sh*t. The only good thing about her sticking around is more drama, oh goodie!

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

I figured if I could attract a diverse group of people from all over the globe, from varying points of view, having each a different perspective on the world situation, I thought, I could perhaps, better understand what happened, and why. It was I guess sort of a sociology experiment. To simply throw a mass of people with diametrically opposing views at ONE predominantly unmediated message board and let them talk it out.

Monday, October 07, 2002

Most Americans consume alcohol rarely, if at all. As a rule, Americans do not consume any alcoholic beverages until after work (this includes beer). Many Americans think that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol is very unhealthy both physically and psychologically.

Saturday, October 05, 2002

I'm not sure if I really should have put this section up or not, but was in one of those "to hell with it" moods. And so here I am, throwing my past, as fraught with insecurities as it is, into the wind for anybody to laugh at.

For this work I created a lens of my own design, reconfiguring several odd lens elements to achieve a unique look. The resulting image is center focused and distorted at the edges. I specifically use this lens for the nudes because of its organic and ethereal properties. This series is on-going as I continue to explore and discover.

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Steve is a Social Media Traveler. Recently, companies, brands, and destinations have sent my wife and I on trips in hopes that we would publicly share our experiences via social media. Recent examples include opening festivities for the Hermitage Club and traveling with GMC to the Super Bowl. (Go Pats!) We are available for more branded experience trips.